[Coco] COBOL

[Joel Ewy]

On 12/24/2013 11:40 AM, Wayne Campbell wrote:
> After much searching, I have to say I have not found a copy of either the
> FORTRAN or COBOL programming languages for OS9. The SWTPC files do not
> appear to contain them, but does have reference to them.
>
> reference: COBOL_MW.6809 (DIR) 96 bytes in size
>
> path: OS9UG001.DSK: SRC/PROGRAMMING_AID
>
> contains: FORMS2.GNX (DIR) 128 bytes in size
>
> The listing does not include this directory's contents.

Oops.  I must not have noticed that forms2.gnx was a directory.  Who 
knows how many other directories I missed?

JCE

> I will run the
> emulator and see if I can get a listing. The forms2.gnx directory contains:
>
>     directory of src/programming_aid/cobol_mw.6809/forms2.gnx  09:34:32
>
> Owner Last modified attributes sector bytecount
> name
> ----- ------------- ---------- ------ ---------
> ----------
>     0  83/08/11 1714  ---wr-wr     7DF       25F
> forms2.gn1
>     0  83/08/11 1715  ---wr-wr     7E3      33CA
> forms2.gn2
>
> This is as close to COBOL as the SWTPC files gets. There are no apparent
> FORTRAN-related files that I have been able to identify so far. A closer
> analysis of the files by someone who knows what might have been part of
> those environments is necessary. That said, the PASCAL disks are part of
> the collection, as is the OS9 version of C.
>
> Wayne
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>wrote:
>
>> I think the FORTRAN compiler existed, but nobody has a copy.
>>
>> Unless they're lurking in the SWTPC disks those compilers are probably
>> lost forever. :-(
>>
>> Willard
>> Sent from Samsung tablet
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>>  From billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
>> Date: 12/23/2013  2:11 PM  (GMT-07:00)
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>> Subject [Coco] COBOL
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>>
>> Are there any existing copies of the MicroWare OS-9 COBOL compiler
>> and/or documentation?  What about Fortran?  I don't believe MicroWare
>> ever did one, but someone must have...
>>
>> bill
>>
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